- Michael Walford
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Olympic medal record Men's field hockey Silver 1948 London Team competition Micky Walford Personal information Full name Michael Moore Walford Born 27 November 1915
Norton-on-Tees, County Durham, EnglandDied 16 January 2002 (aged 86)
Sherborne, Dorset, EnglandBatting style Right-handed Bowling style Left-arm slow Role Batsman Domestic team information Years Team 1935–38 Oxford University 1946–53 Somerset 1950–51 MCC First-class cricket debut 11 May 1935 Oxford University v Lancashire Last First-class cricket 1 September 1953 Somerset v Nottinghamshire Career statistics Competition First-class Matches 97 Runs scored 5327 Batting average 33.71 100s/50s 9/28 Top score 264 Balls bowled 381 Wickets 8 Bowling average 31.12 5 wickets in innings 1 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 6/49 Catches/stumpings 50/– Source: CricketArchive, 12 July 2011 Michael Moore Walford (27 November 1915 – 16 January 2002), often known as "Micky Walford", was an all-round sportsman: a British field hockey player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, a first-class cricket player for Oxford University and Somerset and a rugby union centre three-quarter and stand-off half good enough to play in an international trial for the England national rugby union team. He was born at Norton-on-Tees, County Durham and died at Sherborne, Dorset, where he was for many years a schoolmaster at Sherborne School.
He was a member of the British field hockey team at the 1948 summer Olympic Games, held in London. The team won the silver medal. He played all five matches as half-back.
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Background and education
Walford was educated at Rugby School, where he was in the rugby, hockey and cricket teams. As a school cricketer, he was a middle order batsman and a slow left-arm bowler and he appeared in the schools match at Lord's against Marlborough College, part of the annual public schools games held each year at the then "headquarters" of cricket, in four consecutive years from 1931 to 1934. As a rugby player, he first came to prominence as a 17-year-old when he was named as one of the centre three-quarters in the England public schoolboys' rugby team to play Scotland in the annual match at the start of 1933.[1] In the same fixture in the 1933/34 season Walford's defensive play was singled out in the report in The Times as a factor in the English side's victory.[2]
University sporting career
Later career
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Categories:- 1915 births
- 2002 deaths
- British field hockey players
- Olympic field hockey players of Great Britain
- Field hockey players at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Great Britain
- English cricketers
- Somerset cricketers
- Dorset cricketers
- Oxford University cricketers
- North v South cricketers
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
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